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# Music News You Missed over the Holidays: Spotify, UMG, Live Nation, TikTok & More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/music-stories-you-missed/
- Published: 2025-01-06T13:57:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-06T13:58:00.000Z
- Description: A roundup of important music news you missed over the holiday break from Hypebot and across the web.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Music Business, Music Tech, music, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

A roundup of important music news you missed over the holiday break from Hypebot and across the web.

![music business news you missed](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/news-you-missed.png)

#### 10 Music News You Missed over the holidays

1. **Major new Spotify exposé:** [**The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s plot against musicians**](https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/?ref=hypebot.com) (Harper’s Magazine)  
  - [Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/mood-machine-liz-pelly-book-review?ref=hypebot.com) – “The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may keep us from what we’ll love.” (New Yorker)
2. **Ticket reform stalls:** [Major Music Legislation pulled from final Federal Funding Bill](https://www.hypebot.com/major-music-legislation-pulled/)(Hypebot)
3. **Inside how Live Nation makes money:** [It’s not just tickets and fees: How Live Nation quietly takes your money at every possible opportunity](http://It’s not just tickets and fees: How Live Nation quietly takes your money at every possible opportunity) (Sherwood)
4. [**Amazon Music signs on for UMG’s ‘artist-centric’ push**](https://musically.com/2025/01/02/amazon-music-signs-on-for-umgs-big-artist-centric-push/?ref=hypebot.com) (Music Ally)
5. **[Anthropic AI reaches deal with music publishers](https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/24334866/anthropic-claude-music-publishers-lyric-copyright-lawsuit-deal?ref=hypebot.com)** over lyric dispute, adds guardrails (Verge)
6. [**Pershing Square Completes 2.6**](https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/02/pershing-square-umg-stock-distribution/?ref=hypebot.com)**[% UMG Stock Distribution](https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/02/pershing-square-umg-stock-distribution/?ref=hypebot.com)** (Digital Music News)
7. **Future of TikTok:** [Trump asks Supreme Court to pause TikTok ban](https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-asks-supreme-court-pause-law-that-could-ban-tiktok-2024-12-27/?ref=hypebot.com) (Reuters)
8. [**Indies sound alarm after UMG Downtown and PIAS acquisitions**](https://www.hypebot.com/indies-sound-alarm-after-umg-downtown-and-pias-acquisitions/) (Hypebot)
9. [**DistroKid Union Petition:** 4300 Artists Rally for Workers’ Rights](https://www.hypebot.com/distrokid-union-petition-artists-rally-for-workers-rights/)(Hypebot)
10. **Spotify execs reaped $900M in gains in 2024:** [Executives cash in as streaming service stock price soars](https://www.ft.com/content/d7ecd25a-e827-49b0-b19a-fed96fe7e0b3?ref=hypebot.com) (Financial Times)

#### **More**

- [**Music Industry Trends that will drive 2025: Experts Weigh In**](https://www.hypebot.com/music-industry-trends-driving-2025-experts-weigh-in/)
- [**Our daily roundup of today’s Music Business News**](https://www.hypebot.com/news/)

*Bruce Houghton*